Athletes of the Week Jan. 20
Tyler LeCates
This 10th-grader has grown to be 6-foot-6 and 200 pounds. He is described by assistant wrestling coach Shane Jensen as the strongest and most unorthodox grappler in the wrestling room. In his freshman season, he was a .500 wrestler on JV. In the last JV match before the Smyrna varsity smackdown Jan. 18, Tyler was nearly pinned twice, but he’s hard to punch out, and when he got a power position advantage clamp down over his Smyrna opponent, it was all over, except the eruption from the Cape student section when he got the pin. His season record is an amazing 19-1 with 18 pins. That is just crazy!
Ce’yra Middleton
A 10th grade shot putter, honors student and gospel singer, Ce’yra recently won two big meets at the Worcester Recreation Center that include Delaware and Maryland teams. Last week, she threw 35-feet-11-inches to place third at the Ursinus College Invitational. Ce’yra’s mom, Cammy Dean, the artist formerly known as Missy Biles, threw in the neighborhood of 41-feet when she was an athlete at Cape. “We throwers work hard in the weight room and in the circle drills at practice,” Ce’rya said. “I recently lost about 25 pounds through walking and drinking lots of water. I feel better and I’m so much quicker.” Her grandmother is Doris Biles who everyone knows, so she gets mentioned here.
Robert Mitchell
Robert is a big man light on his feet. He’s a lieutenant in the JROTC program and Cape’s representative to the Blue/Gold All-Star game this June. “Robert didn’t miss a weight room session his four years of high school,” said football coach Bill Collick. “And in some of our biggest football games he simply went off.” Robert is down 20 pounds to a svelte 270. At 6-foot-4, he has finally gotten off the basketball bench, scoring 7 in a 10-point win at Sussex Central then coming back to drop 12 in a big win at Delcastle. Robert’s emergence makes Cape better and more fun to watch when the brawler baller comes in to add some muscle and finesse on the inside. Math is his best subject.
Niyashja Mosley
The Cape girls had a big win at home Jan. 17, a 35-30 low-scoring victory over St. Thomas More. Niyashja, just a sophomore, was all over that game, playing relentless, close defense, snagging rebounds and leading her team with eight points, as no one else cracked double figures. Her three-point shot from way downtown just ahead of the halftime buzzer tied the game at 16. The dropped shot was improbable, as Niyashja, who can get to the basket better than most, had trouble finishing in the first half, missing a bunch of close-in shots. “We came out stronger and harder because nobody expected us to win,” she said. Mosley is an honors math student.
